Technical Questions about Dictionaries...

PrinceOfBabylon · 01-01-2011, 01:46 AM

Hello and Happy New Year!!
Not sure if this is the right place to ask this, but Google keeps bringing this forum up in it's results so here goes.
I want to learn a new language, Japanese or Italian, haven't really decided yet which one I'm going to go for first. As part of the learning process I want to make my own Dictionary. Since I already know german and english I thought I could use both languages in the definitions, i.e.
<foreign word> - <1. german translation 2. english translation>
in one go, so instead of having two dictionaries (Italian - german & Italian - english) I would only have one (Italian - myKnowledge).
So I have been looking around the interwebs for a suitable dictionary program and decided on stardict since it will/would work on my N800. What I couldn't find yet - because it either doesn't exist or I'm way too stupid - is a program to make the actual dictionary.
In short I'm looking for a program that will let me name my dictionary (Mywonderfuldict) and then have one field to put in the foreign word and another field for the definitions. And then let me save everything to file that can be read by stardict or another program that runs on the Nokia N800. So far I have only found the stardict editor and the Babylon Glossary Builder both of which require me to already have a file with definitions to convert to their respective formats.
I want a program that let's me define the words, not convert a database into another. Is there such a program out there?

Sorry, if this post is a bit confused, I'm a bit tired what with partying and drinking and stuff.

Thanks in advance!

kindlekitten · 01-01-2011, 02:09 AM

I suggest that you bump this about the middle of next week when more people will be around and in a mind of thinking through this.

in the mean time welcome to the forums, enjoy!

GeoffC · 01-01-2011, 06:13 AM

Welcome to mobileread ...

You may be better asking this question here in the Workshop

bjones6416 · 01-01-2011, 09:19 AM

Just looked around in Google a little bit...do you mean something like this?

HarryT · 01-02-2011, 12:11 PM

Moved to the Workshop forum. Discussions related to eBooks are prohibited in the Lounge.

DaleDe · 01-02-2011, 06:04 PM

Check the wiki for information on dictionary.

Dale

01-01-2011, 01:46 AM	#1
PrinceOfBabylon Junior Member Posts: 1 Karma: 10 Join Date: Jan 2011 Device: Various PDAs	Technical Questions about Dictionaries... Hello and Happy New Year!! Not sure if this is the right place to ask this, but Google keeps bringing this forum up in it's results so here goes. I want to learn a new language, Japanese or Italian, haven't really decided yet which one I'm going to go for first. As part of the learning process I want to make my own Dictionary. Since I already know german and english I thought I could use both languages in the definitions, i.e. <foreign word> - <1. german translation 2. english translation> in one go, so instead of having two dictionaries (Italian - german & Italian - english) I would only have one (Italian - myKnowledge). So I have been looking around the interwebs for a suitable dictionary program and decided on stardict since it will/would work on my N800. What I couldn't find yet - because it either doesn't exist or I'm way too stupid - is a program to make the actual dictionary. In short I'm looking for a program that will let me name my dictionary (Mywonderfuldict) and then have one field to put in the foreign word and another field for the definitions. And then let me save everything to file that can be read by stardict or another program that runs on the Nokia N800. So far I have only found the stardict editor and the Babylon Glossary Builder both of which require me to already have a file with definitions to convert to their respective formats. I want a program that let's me define the words, not convert a database into another. Is there such a program out there? Sorry, if this post is a bit confused, I'm a bit tired what with partying and drinking and stuff. Thanks in advance!

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01-01-2011, 02:09 AM	#2
kindlekitten Professional Adventuress Posts: 13,368 Karma: 50260224 Join Date: Sep 2009 Location: The Olympic Peninsula on the OTHER Washington! (the big green clean one on the west coast!) Device: Kindle, the original! Times Two! and gifting an International Kindle	I suggest that you bump this about the middle of next week when more people will be around and in a mind of thinking through this. in the mean time welcome to the forums, enjoy!

01-01-2011, 06:13 AM	#3
GeoffC Chocolate Grasshopper ... Posts: 27,600 Karma: 20821184 Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Scotland Device: Muse HD , Cybook Gen3 , Pocketbook 302 (Black) , Nexus 10: wife has PW	Welcome to mobileread ... You may be better asking this question here in the Workshop

01-01-2011, 09:19 AM	#4
bjones6416 ↓↓ Skirt!! Earrings!! Posts: 3,394 Karma: 17432172 Join Date: Jun 2009 Location: Georgia, USA Device: Acer netbook, JetBook Lite, Sony PRS-300, Kindle 2, Kindle Fire	Just looked around in Google a little bit...do you mean something like this?

01-02-2011, 12:11 PM	#5
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01-02-2011, 06:04 PM	#6
DaleDe Grand Sorcerer Posts: 11,470 Karma: 13095790 Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: Grass Valley, CA Device: EB 1150, EZ Reader, Literati, iPad 2 & Air 2, iPhone 7	Check the wiki for information on dictionary. Dale

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